1925 in science fiction

The year 1925 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

Births and deaths

Births

• January 22 : Katherine MacLean, American writer^[1]
• February 14 : J. T. McIntosh, Scottish writer (died 2008)^[2]
• March 12 : Harry Harrison, American writer (died 2012)^[3]
• June 9 :
  • Bob Ottum, American writer (died 1986)^[4]
  • Keith Laumer, American writer (died 1993)^[5]
• August 18 : Brian Aldiss, British writer (died 2017)^[6]
• Arkady Strugatsky, Russian writer (died 1991)^[7]

Deaths

Events

Awards

The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time.

Literary releases

Novels

• (in French) Les Hommes frénétiques, by Ernest Pérochon^[8]
• (in French) Les Navigateurs de l'infini, by J.-H. Rosny aîné.^[9]
• (in French) Out of the Silence, by Erle Cox (publication as book ; the novel had been published in a magazine, each week during six months, in 1919).^[10]
• (in Russian) Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov.^[11]
• (in Russian) The Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov.^[12]
• (in Russian) Professor Dowell's Head by Alexander Belayev.^[13]

Stories collections

Comics

Audiovisual outputs

Movies

• The Crazy Ray, by René Clair.^[14]
• Luch Smerti, by Lev Kuleshov.^[15]

See also

• 1925 in science
• 1924 in science fiction
• 1926 in science fiction

References

1. "Authors : MacLean, Katherine : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
2. "Authors : McIntosh, J T : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
3. "Harry Harrison: Writer of sci-fi novels who created the popular". The Independent. 25 August 2012. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
4. "Authors : Ottum, Bob : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
5. "Authors : Laumer, Keith : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
6. Priest, Christopher (21 August 2017). "Brian Aldiss obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
7. Goble, Alan (2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 447. ISBN 9783110951943.
8. Horn, Pierre L. (1991). Handbook of French Popular Culture. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 234. ISBN 9780313261213.
9. Smith, Michael G. (2014). Rockets and Revolution: A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight. U of Nebraska Press. p. 383. ISBN 9780803286566.
10. "Authors : Cox, Erle : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
11. Armitstead, Claire (4 January 2017). "Mikhail Bulgakov's The Heart of a Dog still bites". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
12. Haber, Edythe C. (1992). "The Social and Political Context of Bulgakov's "The Fatal Eggs"". Slavic Review. 51 (3): 497–510. doi:10.2307/2500057. JSTOR 2500057.
13. Beumers, Birgit (2015). Directory of World Cinema: RUSSIA 2. Intellect Books. p. 163. ISBN 9781783200108.
14. Dixon, Wheeler Winston; Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey (2018). A Short History of Film, Third Edition. Rutgers University Press. p. 60. ISBN 9780813595160.
15. . BFI. Archived from the original on March 31, 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2019.